10 Worst Comic Book Castings in Film History

By Justin Mikkelsen /

4. Jim Carrey As The Riddler in Batman Forever

Remember what I said about Tommy Lee Jones as Two Face? You know that part about how he could have been a great actor for the role? I can€™t say that about Jim Carrey. There is no world post the 1960's where Ace Ventura is a successful Riddler. The closest Jim Carrey should have come to The Riddler is his furry and misshapen green body-suit when he played The Grinch. I can take Mark Hamill€™s voice performance as The Joker on Batman€™s many cartoon adventures more seriously than Carrey€™s live-action performance as The Riddler. In fact, why didn€™t Joel Schumacher just put a CG actor in Carrey€™s place, and use Mark Hamill€™s nutsy Joker voice for The Riddler? It would have been an improvement on Jim Carrey€™s slapstick, moronic performance of a deranged sociopath obsessed with stealing brainwaves and destroying Batman. It is truly sad when the console game: €œLego Batman€ does a better job with a character than a film (with spoken dialog) does. The Riddler is far too complicated a character for Jim Carrey to tackle, and I am sad that we have yet to see a better take on this interesting villain. Who They Should Have Cast: Someone who can act